AI Super Powers

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One of the obligations that comes with my work as a venture-capital (VC) investor is that I often give speeches about artificial intelligence (AI) to members of the global business and political elite. One of the joys of my work is that I sometimes get to talk about that very same topic with kindergarteners. Surprisingly, these two distinctly different audiences often ask me the same kinds of questions. During a recent visit to a Beijing kindergarten, a gaggle of five-year-old's grilled me about our AI future. “Are we going to have robot teachers?” “What if one robot car bumps into another robot car and then we get hurt?” “Will people marry robots and have babies with them?” “Are computers going to become so smart that they can boss us around?” “If robots do everything, then what are we going to do?”